Ruby Issue Tracking System

02/23/2021

12:23 AM Ruby master Bug #17619: if false foo=42; end creates a foo local variable set to nil

josh.cheek (Josh Cheek) wrote in #note-9:
> It's intentional. Eg what if you set the same variable in both branches? ... Student (Nathan Zook)

02/22/2021

11:48 PM Ruby master Feature #16989: Sets: need ♥️

marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) wrote in #note-31:
> I'm sorry, I am completely confused by this discussion, I can'... Student (Nathan Zook)

11:37 PM Ruby master Feature #16990: Sets: operators compatibility with Array

mame (Yusuke Endoh) wrote in #note-9:
> I expect that `ary + set` return a Set, not an Array, unless it raises an ex... Student (Nathan Zook)

05/24/2018

07:33 PM Ruby master Feature #14097: Add union and difference to Array

I cannot say that I am a fan of this proposal. To be fair, I'm not a fan of #|.
Arrays are not sets. Trying to t... Student (Nathan Zook)

05/19/2018

01:06 AM Ruby master Feature #14724: chains of inequalities

As a mathematician, this suggestion really has my attention.
First, I almost never write a <= b && b < c. What I ... Student (Nathan Zook)

04/27/2018

07:14 AM Ruby master Feature #12607: Ruby needs an atomic integer

I think that you might not have understood his concern. Getting multi-threaded code right is hard, no matter the pri... Student (Nathan Zook)

04/06/2018

12:00 AM Ruby master Feature #14666: nil.any?{} should return false

`.any?` only makes sense on `Enumerable`s. There is no end to the methods that we would need to define on `nil` if w... Student (Nathan Zook)

03/03/2017

10:09 PM Ruby master Feature #13263: Add companion integer nth-root method to recent Integer#isqrt

If you get the wrong answer from Newton's, then you are doing it wrong. It may fail to converge, (which seems MOST u... Student (Nathan Zook)

02/28/2017

10:38 PM Ruby master Feature #13263: Add companion integer nth-root method to recent Integer#isqrt

Newton's method has quadratic convergence. This means that a properly implemented Newton's method will blow away any... Student (Nathan Zook)

02/24/2017

09:36 PM Ruby master Feature #13250: Initial estimate for Integer#sqrt should be improved

Think about this some more, the fastest solution would be to actually to a N-R round in the floating point unit as we... Student (Nathan Zook)